Have you ever heard of the "Goomba" fallacy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmcM3GqjJZ4
#internet #memes #fallacy #mario #twitter
#fallacy
Heh, you can break a lot of history down to a feud between the English and the French, Rome and everyone else, Vikings and everyone else.
I think we experience racism as we do filtered through empire, but it's a problem we have to fight everywhere.
In some ways I just see it as another #fallacy.
List of fallacies - Wikipedia
The Grey Scale of Politics
Too much either/or thinking in public discourse. No wonder we can't find effective solutions.
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=21&id=400
“There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis, by a pretence of its dangerous consequences to religion and morality.” — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
#QOTD #DavidHume #Quotation #ReasoningMethod #Quote #PhilosophicalDisputes #RefutationOfHypotheses #AppealToConsequences #Religion #Morality #IntellectualDishonesty #Fallacy
https://yahooeysblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/quote-of-the-day-5404/
@danmcquillan One of my main points against #AI; It is trained by fallible humans, with fallible, false, problematic and often outright wrong or offensive data.
Why do people keep expecting it to be perfect? It's a #fallacy of epic proportions. If humans are misogynistic (or misandric), racist or in other ways biased, how the heck do you expect such a model not to be those things?
Extensibility: The "100% Lisp" Fallacy
https://kyo.iroiro.party/en/posts/100-percent-lisp/
#HackerNews #Extensibility #Lisp #Fallacy #Programming #HackerNews
I see a lot of people concerned about #inequality. The only "good" reason to be concerned with it is based on a #fallacy; the fixed pie fallacy, or the idea that the amount of #wealth in the world is fixed.
The entire planet is vastly wealthier than it was a hundred or two hundred years ago. The amount of wealth is not fixed. Therefore, it does not follow that one person being #rich means another must be #poor.
Put another way, #poverty for one is not caused by the wealth of another.
The Grey Scale of Politics
Either/Or thinking also belongs to the political left:
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=21&id=400
DEBATE PRO TIP: If you start your argument with something like "According to #ChatGPT, …", you have AUTOMATICALLY lost the debate.
This is a #fallacy known as "Argument from authority". Just because a supposed authority says something doesn't make it true.
And ChatGPT is the WORST authority about anything. LLMs are just computer programs that imitate human language, but they do not "think". There's no #magic going on here.
#SGU #TheSkepticsGuideToTheUniverse
The Skeptics Guide #1060 - Nov 1 2025
News Items: Therapeutic #Nanoparticles, What Killed #Napoleon's Forces, Making Better #Photosynthesis, Second Generation #BlackHoles, More on #3I_Atlas; Who's That #Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Human #Instinct; Name That Logical #Fallacy; #Science or Fiction
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Does faulty thinking tend to be faster?
People often fell for lures more quickly (than they realized the correct answer) on cognitive reflection and conjunction #fallacy tests, but this reversed in gambler's fallacy tasks: lured responses took longer.
Did you know that we once believed that cultivating land changes the #climate?
During the 1870s, the #American Southwest & northern South #Australia experienced a small blip in climate. This led to short-lived favourable rainfall patterns.
This was used to justify human habitation that had started in those areas.
As we are prone to do, this phenomenon led us to correlate #human activities with more rainfall.
The #hypothesis was known as "Rain follows the plough".
🦄 The Micro-Benchmark Fallacy
It's a trap.
by @sindresorhus https://sindresorhus.com/blog/micro-benchmark-fallacy
#benchmark #fallacy
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The Skeptics Guide #1058 - Oct 18 2025
#News Items: Why People Believe #Misinformation, #Measles on the Rise, Is #Therapy Speech, #Solar Activity Increasing, Possible #Wormhole; Who's That #Noisy; Name That Logical #Fallacy; From #TikTok: Earth in a #Vacuum; #Science or Fiction
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One of the greatest #fallacies en currant due to the Internet and Social Media is "false precision". Also see "Texas Sharpshooter" #fallacy
I was reminded that recently, I was talking about #equivocation, and failed to talk about the #fallacy of #FalseEquivalence. A lack of understanding about false equivalence is very prominent in our society.
That is to say, that the mere fact that differing #opinions on a particular topic may exist is no indication that all opinions are equally supported by factual evidence and reason.
What about the view that pacifism is a luxury paid for by those doing #violence on your behalf?
I've heard it in that scene from Patton, and cop shows, and gun arguments. And the Upstairs Downstairs reboot.
It's used to justify genocide.
I don't agree, but I can't dismiss it.
Where's the #fallacy?
#politics #war #guns #anarchy
#statstab #433 The Table 2 Fallacy: Presenting and Interpreting Confounder and Modifier Coefficients
Thoughts: Adding predictors to your model results in marked changes in inference. Be mindful!
#SGU #TheSkepticsGuideToTheUniverse
The Skeptics Guide #1055 - Sep 27 2025
What's the Word: #Autism; News Items: New #NASA Mission Control, #Element l120, Scalable #Quantum_Computer, Using #AI Increases #Lying, Scams and #Fraud; Who's That #Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: #Hydrogen as a #Propellent; Name That Logical #Fallacy; #Science or Fiction
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